nrdxp commented 2 years ago

Installing in single user mode is useful for a few different reasons:

caching is simpler. I ran into issues trying to pull the eval cache from /root which is why I did this in the first place
AWS credentials are more straight forward for s3 caches. One does not have to copy credentials to /root in single user mode

Potential issues/improvement

I have a Nix secret key for signing in my extra_nix_config and as is, this change initially broke it, since it expected the key at installation time. I worked around it by simply placing the key before the install action, but I'd like to at least figure out why this didn't happen in daemon mode.

domenkozar commented 2 years ago

This needs to add a test for macos/linux in github actions

domenkozar commented 1 year ago

This is fixed in https://github.com/cachix/install-nix-action/commit/d0ac6617f6aff03fc3b32d42cada10512b308f32

cachix / install-nix-action

option to install in single user mode #137

Potential issues/improvement